PC-BSD needs VirtualBox right now! - PC-BSD Forums

sharris · #1 10-03-2010, 01:21 AM

Do anyone have a Complete How-To install VirtualBox on PcBSD-8.1 that "WORKS". You need to make room on this Forum front page for it . I have a beautiful PcBSD setup and I don't ever want give it up to Fedora or Windows to run this great OS as a simple guest. I want PcBSD as HOST and King of the Jungle on my machines. Is there any hope or is everybody hiding and running PcBSD as guest. heehee. Shame on you.

I'm sure more 25% of all member use vitalization. I never, ever cared about vBOX until I was able to install PcBSD on my prize machine early this year. It's on my best, most expensive freaking machine, ever, holding 80% of the entire HDD ready for PcBSD to kick some booty. I mean all of 750GB waiting all year long. Only FreeBSD got the other 20%.

Also, are there other vitalization product that will put PcBSD in full control and if nothing works, why haven't somebody said so by now? Vitalization is here to stay. Why has it not been made PRIORITY-1 ? PcBSD is the future but with-out full control using vitalization it will only be another guest in the end, the kind of spot reserve for Vista and goofy Windows-7 (32 and 64). Since Win-95 and XP they went from sugar to sh*t. I own them all but they will NEVER touch my AMD-64 again, unless PcBSD and vBOX run them in the background. No brag, just facts.

Hope I did not break anyone heart.

Please advise

Fatmice · #2 10-03-2010, 02:11 AM

There were several threads about VBox in the recent past so take a look a them. One known issue is the video emulation layer. This has to do with VBox development team and not FreeBSD.

Ralph_Ellis · #3 10-03-2010, 04:02 AM

I have not had any issues with VirtualBox. The only interesting difference is that I can compile vituralbox-ose with clang or gcc but virtualbox-ose-kmod prefers gcc. You can sometimes slip in some aggressive /etc/make.conf options and sometimes not.
If you have trouble compiling, remove all options from /etc/make.conf
It will not be optimized but it will compile.

Ian_Robinson · #4 10-03-2010, 06:59 PM

Although you can compile VirtualBox like Ralph Ellis did, the fastest and easiest way to have a working VirtualBox setup on a PCBSD host is to download and install the VirtualBox PBI from this location:

http://pbidir.com/bt/pbi/213/virtualbox

After starting the VBox machine, create a "new" guest by configuring the type, disk size, memory size, video settings, etc. Put your install media (i.e. your Windows installation CD) into the CD drawer and start the new guest to install the guest operating system. Don't forget to install "Guest Additions" to enhance the use of the guest operating system.

Ralph_Ellis · #5 10-06-2010, 12:45 AM

Just a quick note on building VirtualBox from the ports tree. If you compile it with gcc44 or above, you will get an error when you try to run it. If you have fancy options in your /etc/make.conf
take them out and allow gcc42, the default compiler, to do the compile. It won't be as well optimized but it will run.
Having said, that the PBI will work as just as well.